Re: Male and female classes of chromosome sequences

Hi John,

> I was referring in part to an article by Jones, which you mentioned
>a while back. Says only two haplogroups for Y chromosome. But I see
>the force of your remarks - I don't suppose some of this tracing
>commands a lot of grant money.
> Seems I left my computer on during a thunderstorm, and wiped out
>everything - don't know why Jones survived. But, shoot, it was a '96
>Gateway, with 32 RAM, I think, so I got a new one from AOL for $250,
>plus a commitment to take AOL for a year.
> You had some other references, to a Salzano article, for one, which
>might be well for me to review. Any donations by you would be
>gratefully received.

Sorry about your computer ...

If you are mainly interested in Y chromosome, I could suggest these
(over and above Seielstad's which you already mentioned):

Mol Biol Evol. 2004 Jan;21(1):164-75. Epub 2003 Oct 31.

High-resolution SNPs and microsatellite haplotypes point to a single,
recent entry of Native American Y chromosomes into the Americas.
Zegura SL, Karafet TM, Zhivotovsky LA, Hammer MF.

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/1/164

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY 16:420?439 (2004)
Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Diversity
and the Peopling of the Americas: Evolutionary
and Demographic Evidence
THEODORE G. SCHURR1* AND STEPHEN T. SHERRY2

(not online? I could send via e-mail)

Am J Hum Genet. 2003 September; 73(3): 524?539.

Y-Chromosome Evidence for Differing Ancient Demographic Histories in
the Americas
Maria-Catira Bortolini,1,2 Francisco M. Salzano,2 Mark G. Thomas,1
Steven Stuart,1 Selja P. K. Nasanen,1 Claiton H. D. Bau,2 Mara H.
Hutz,2 Zulay Layrisse,3 Maria L. Petzl-Erler,4 Luiza T. Tsuneto,4
Kim Hill,5 Ana M. Hurtado,5 Dinorah Castro-de-Guerra,3 Maria M.
Torres,6 Helena Groot,6 Roman Michalski,7 Pagbajabyn Nymadawa,8
Gabriel Bedoya,9 Neil Bradman,1 Damian Labuda,10 and Andres
Ruiz-Linares1,9

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1180678

Am. J. Hum. Genet. 70:192-206, 2002

The Dual Origin and Siberian Affinities of Native American
Y Chromosomes
Jeffrey T. Lell,1 Rem I. Sukernik,2 Yelena B. Starikovskaya,2 Bing
Su,3 Li Jin,3
Theodore G. Schurr,4 Peter A. Underhill,5 and Douglas C. Wallace1

http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2002_v70_p192-206.pdf

Am J Hum Genet. 2002 May; 70(5): 1377?1380.

The Peopling of the Americas: A Second Major Migration?
Eduardo Tarazona-Santos1,3 and Fabrício R. Santos2

http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=11951181

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DNA Heritage haplogroup distribution map (point to a haplogroup letter
at the top to see the distribution of that haplogroup only)

http://dnaheritage.com/ysnptree.asp

Gisele
.

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